Community Care Center of Lemay

While this facility's overall grade was decent, it really excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our best scores. Our inspection ratings weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better grades in this category usually have very few severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple of minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This nursing home's second best category was long-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. In our long-term care grade, we focus more on the volume of care provided by a facility, along with a series of qualitative metrics. One of the datapoints we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccines. Thankfully, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its patients. This place also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Another strength of this facility is its favorable grade in nursing. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with a score of D. We scrutinized the levels of nurses employed by the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of hours the nurses worked with patients, in computing our grade in this area. This facility averaged a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing ratings. This place fared well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

The final area we rated was short-term care, which proved to be this nursing home's worst area. We awarded this facility a D in that area. Our short-term care grades are crucial for prospective residents needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This includes a wide range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. With its score in this category, we were not surprised to find that this facility is well below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the metrics we looked at. Honestly, this was what we expected to find. The final metric we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor statistics was damning for this facility's short-term care score.